Add a shape, position and fill in Captivate 2023
I am trying to add a box that I want to fill with a colour and then position on screen.
Whilst this is simplicity itself in any other similar system I cannot for the life of me locate the option to do so here.
Any help would be gratefully received.
I’m having the same problem. First, if you can point me directly to the URL where all the knowledge about this new version of Captivate lives, that would be wonderful. I would be happy to help myself if I could only find the help. Second, are you saying that we can no longer do simple things like create a shape? In my case, I just want to create a shape, fill it with color, and put a title on top of it. Honestly, I’ve been using Captivate from LONG before it was Captivate and I’m pretty disappointed so far. I feel like I have lost a real flexible tool and gained…something else, I don’t know what.
Second try, my first long answer just disappeared. FYI I use Captivate intensively since version 1, and as an Adobe Community Expert have a lot of Adobe applications in my toolbox. Why the CP team kept the same name for this new application is a mystery. Articulate has the professional tool StoryLine and the easy tool Rise, Adobe has Premiere Pro and Premiere Rush, Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. The new version is the ‘easy’ tool lacking lot of features. Promise is that all features should be possible in the future, including the roundtripping with other Adobe apps which are not included in version 12.
IMO here are the two main reasons for your issues as lont time developer:
- Only responsive projects can be created. Like with Fluid Boxes that means immediately that stacking is impossible. You cannot put a shape on top of another object. Very confusing is that the software simulations still use click boxes which are normally forbidden for that reason. Also confusing is that the terminology has completely be revamped except for software sims. Sorry, but I have been a professor and change in terminology are an extra complication.
- To have the ‘easy’ feature developers are limited to the use of slide templates (no custom master slide, they are gone), containers with components, and closed off widgets. Design control is rather well, but the deprecation of Themes (limited to text styles) doesn’t cope well with companies where an eLearning developers group is working on complicated projects. None of the requests from my clients (I am consultant) can be done with the new version.
Except for the videos you can find in this platform, which are mostly rather basic, there is very little help available contrary to what you can find for the full versions before 12. There is a short Help document but it is rather limited, has typos and incomplete information. You find it here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/user-guide.html
New to Adobe Captivate. I’m just trying to understand this answer.
Does this mean you can’t add a little text box to a slide and resize it so it fits properly? Or resize things like you would if you were crropping a photo? Does everything have to be by exactly(give or take the Alignment and Spacing options). Do you don’t really have much freedom to customize outside of what is offered?
TIA
Indeed, control over the containers is necessary because of the automatic adaption to different screen resolutions necessary for a responsive project. ‘Size’ has not much sense in that case. I also regret the lack of control, but you need to accept the lack of customisation especially for location and size.
Sorry, design has been taken over by the application. You need to use one of the provided media blocks or widgets. Simple objects to add are no longer available, because Captivate new version only creates responsive projects and needs to know how to transform those containers (media blocks, widgets) and their components for each available browser resolution on any device.
If you tell what you want to do with that ‘box’, maybe I can give you more details about a possible workflow to reduce a container to one rectangular colored box.
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